I just joined a fellow Defined Fitness Training LLC member, and two others for a quick out and back between Shawnee, KS and Lawrence, KS. It was a last minute invite yesterday, and since I was planning (and needed) to get out for a ride, it fit the plan perfectly.

Now… when I mean quick, I mean just that. We rode hard and fast nearly the whole way. I was hard pressed to keep up… in fact, I didn’t. Had they not slowed the pace a bit, taking mercy on my lack of riding lately, it would have changed from a group ride, to a solo ride for me.

I’m a little confused by the stats reported on motionbased.com… my Garmin shows a moving time of 3:54:18 and an average speed of 18.82mph vs. the 4:53:35 time and 15.6mph average the site recorded. I’m going to go with what’s on the Garmin itself, thank you very much. ;)

Normally when I make the trek to Lawrence from my house, I’ll stop a couple times… typically once on the way out, and once on the way back. Not so much this time. It was hard spinning from our rendezvous point at 47th and K-7 to Wheatfields Bakery?, where we (finally) took a break and had breakfast. Their English Breakfast is pretty good, as are their cafe mochas.

The new Dew Drop should be here next week… I’ll pick my riding back up again when it arrives, and all will be right in the world. I drove to work all last week… it was nice not having to plan ahead with the clothes, and being able to get home more quickly, but losing the stamina really isn’t that hot, nor is not having the extra time to myself.